"Hey, this is it. Can we go now?"
One of the more active candidates, who had been talking the whole way, looked at Lu Yulan with a hint of expectation. He had come to realize that Lu Yulan was the leader of the group.
"No, I only said I wouldn't eliminate you, I didn't say I could let you go."
After answering, Lu Yulan looked at the well-established watermelon field, where all the watermelons were arranged in rows. If she weren't in the desert, Lu Yulan would have thought she had wandered into someone's watermelon field.
"Miss Lan, are you planning to use this watermelon patch to wait for prey to come to you?"
"More or less, but we shouldn't just wait around; we need to take the initiative."
She had already inquired and learned that the watermelons were small, only about the size of two fists, roughly the size of a regular cantaloupe, so she could take some with her.
The weather and terrain in the desert are ever-changing. If you get buried in the sand like them, you might not be able to get out the next day. So it's better to take them with you.
If you have a container, it would be best to put it in, juice it, and take it with you. Unfortunately, everything was confiscated.
Looking at the three people covered in watermelon vines, Lu Yulan smiled with satisfaction.
"Don't get any other ideas. If... I'll just break one of them, and then... you know what will happen."
"Understood, Miss Lan."
What a disgrace to go back from a proper assessment! I didn't even catch a single person, and I was caught by a woman instead. It's such a humiliation. I'm so upset.
...
"Hey, there's fruit here, bro, I'm hungry."
"Let me try it for you."
The two boys, who were traveling together, still maintained a degree of wariness when they saw the watermelon on the ground.
The three people who were caught by Lu Yulan were initially somewhat depressed, but now, watching others fall into Lu Yulan's trap one by one, they inexplicably felt a strange sense of pride, as if they had caught so many.
After all, they did contribute the medicinal watermelon, didn't they?
Seeing the man getting closer and closer to the watermelon, "Chi Huo, make your move."
A flash of silver light streaked past the man's eyes, catching him off guard. He instinctively tried to dodge but couldn't. Before he could even feel relieved, the watermelon in his hand exploded into pieces. It turned out that the target wasn't him, but the watermelon.
The original medicinal watermelon was poisonous, but in interstellar space, perhaps due to the male's upgraded physique, the original toxicity is not so great. Contact with the juice only has a simple numbing effect, but if you eat it, you will end the test.
"Brother, what's wrong?"
"Don't……"
He only managed to utter one word before falling silent. Seeing the effect of the watermelon, the group, now quite adept, began to gang up on the lone individual.
Looking at the two white jade buckles they had just received, the three of them looked at Chi Huo with some envy. He was indeed a man with a lucky buff. Not only did he get to know the big shot early on, but he also managed to get close to the big shot during the assessment. If they had known that Lu Yulan was so powerful, they would have offered the medicine watermelon on the first meeting instead of being foolish enough to set a trap.
And so, they traveled along, stopping and starting, encountering several groups of people, and basically eliminating them all.
As night fell, they still hadn't made it out of the desert.
Looking at the dozens of white jade buckles she had obtained, Lu Yulan took out nine and gave them to the three examinees.
"Give."
"These are ours?"
One of them looked at Lu Yulan in disbelief, not expecting her to be so generous. He thought that letting them go in the end was the best outcome.
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